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Classical Album Review: Missy Mazzoli’s “Dark with Excessive Bright”

March 11, 2023
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Missy Mazzoli’s scoring is generally airy and virtuosic, yet Dark with Excessive Bright doesn’t seem to add up to more than the sum of its parts.

Rock Concert Review: Elvis Costello — Proudly Flaunting his Dependability and Unpredictability

March 10, 2023
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Elvis Costello loves to visit various regions of the past but wouldn’t dare move to any of them permanently.

Classical Concert Review: The Boston Symphony Orchestra Plays Davis, Dawson, and Bonds

March 10, 2023
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While balancing the scales of justice can be difficult work, the effort is an important act of generosity, even love.

Book Review: “Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness” — No Way Out?

March 10, 2023
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Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness has scholarly value but, given its diminution of human agency, it will not significantly impact real life public conversations about ending white privilege and dealing with the complexities of cultural appropriation.

Classic Music Album: Quatuor Diotima — György Ligeti’s “Metamorphosis”

March 8, 2023
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Quatuor Diotima evince a thorough command of György Ligeti’s style, as well as a breathtaking grasp of the demands he makes on the instruments.

Classic Music Album Review: Quatuor Diotima — György Ligeti’s “Metamorphosis”

March 8, 2023
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Quatuor Diotima evince a thorough command of György Ligeti’s style, as well as a breathtaking grasp of the demands he makes on the instruments.

Opera Review: “The Dragon of Wantley” — Knight Kicks Dragon in the Arse

March 8, 2023
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More popular than The Beggar’s Opera, J. F. Lampe’s goofy opera of 1737 receives its first complete recording, and the performance is splendidly, subtly humorous.

Classical Concert Review: Pianist Igor Levit — A Beethoven Recital to Remember

March 7, 2023
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More proof that, with pianist Igor Levit, Beethoven had found new interpreter, not only worthy, but important.

Classical Music Album Review: Beatrice Rana plays Schumann

March 7, 2023
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Pianist Beatrice Rana, joined by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and conductor Yanick Nézet-Séguin, plays the daylights out of Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor.

Concert Review: Chameleon Arts Ensemble — Animated by The Bard

March 7, 2023
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Chamber music under Shakespeare’s spell is responsible for one of the high points of the Chameleon Arts Ensemble’s current season.

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